So many choices how do you know what's actually good? Bendix, rotorpros, Baer Eradispeed, or GM Durastop? I just want a nice looking, good performance rotor that's going to last. Don't want to worry about cracking or any of that. Thinking of doing the slotted only, any suggestions on that too?

Thanks!

Chris

 

any track events?
how much money do you have for this project?
There are track rotors , then there are bling rotors.
Track rotors will stop a C5 in everyday driving conditions just like factory rotors.
Track rotors are cheap and are considered throw aways... quality is similar to stock rotors.

Bling rotors are as good as stock rotors for street applicarions... but they look good doing it

Bling rotors have no place on the track, except 1/4 event.

Bling rotors vary in cost from 170 dollars for four to 1200 dollars for four... of course you can find extreme rotors at 3000 to five thousand dollars too.

Brembo Wagner, Bendix,Raybestos most of the cheap bling rotors on Ebay all are made in Canada at the same factory...but they are made to specific specs of the dealer...Some buy rotor blanks from Canada, and do post process in house...

Baers are made in Australia and processed here.
I have 60,000 miles on my Baer Eradispeed 2 piece rotors and they look as good as the day I bought them.

 

I just bought the Bendix package the comes with the slotted and drilled rotors and the Axxis brake pads. I have not received them to be able to tell you how they perform but at $220 for the entire package, I couldn't pass up the deal.

 

i got mine from rotorpros..... $250 shipped dimpled slotted with painted hats

 

www.sportbrakes.com here.... drilled, slotted, zinc washed ( so the hats , slots and drill holes don't rust) $265 delivered

 

 

No track racing here. Just your average daily corvette cruiser. I was think of the baer eradispeed 1 piece but with all of these other lower cost bling ones I wasn't sure what to do. Seems like there is enought people out there using the lower cost ones so they must be good.

Thanks!

 

Had mine for a year now no problems.

 

I've got the Baer Eradispeeds on mine and like them a lot. Sportbrakes makes a good set too and the cost is significantly less. Whatever you get, consider getting ones that are zinc coated - helps prevent the rust.

 

Stay away from slotted or drilled if you are not a track person. The only legitimate reason for slotted and drilled is to help with cooling under the constant brake conditions of a track. In the real world it will just result in easier cracking of the rotor. I would suggest zinc plated (to retard rust) standard rotors. Try here....

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never use drilled rotors for track -- they DO NOT help cool the rotors and are for looks only. Slotted may help, but with new brake pad technology, they are not necessary. Drilled rotors will crack under extreme braking that you will find in track use due to the uneven cooling caused by the holes. I think they will be fine for daily driving and they do have the "cool" factor.

 

All I can say is OMG
now here is a guy who really has no clue...none ... Nada...

 

ET, I have read many of your posts, and when you are not trying to be an a$$, you usually have some very intelligent and enlightening information to add. So, please enlighten me.

 

Got Sportbrakes rotors, get compliments on them all the time!

 

Why do people post information as if they are an authority on a subject...
When Newbies come here and ask for information, most think that everyone who posts advice is an authority...
Your post to this tread, left alone, would conclude that the newbies who were going to race their cars, and on your advice, would go out and spend hundreds of dollars on drilled an slotted rotors because that was the advice given on the great Corvette forum... So on your recommendation they would spend their hard earned money on drilled and slotted rotors that will fail in a few hundred miles on the track, possibly cause them physical harm, and find that because of your recommendation , the corvette forum sucks and people do not know what they are doing there.So unless you have first hand knowledge, or are an automotive engineer, or a brake and rotor specialist... I would suggest that you not give out information that is so wrong and so 180 degrees from the truth...
People pm me all the time about posts like yours, that are typically so far from the Truth
I usually get a topic line in PM Like "ET I trust your advice.."
Most people who track their car are using the cheapest rotors they can buy...they all indeed stop the car. NAPA 25 dollar rotors are the choice of many... you can sometimes get two track events from a set..they are not drilled or slotted,with the exception of very space aged rotors in the 4 to 5000 dollar range and are carbon fiber rotors
Drilled and slotted rotors have built in internal stress because of the changes in the surface of the fire path... holes create differences in these stresses, as the rotors heat up these differences heat up differently because the internal stress is not uniform, especially around the holes.. as the molecules around the holes speed up they expand under heat at different rates than the rest of the rotor surface. When The area around the holes heat up at a different rate up they expand ,, when they expand at different rates they crack because the hole will heat up quicker than the rest of the rotor,

Here is a typical example of the hot spots around a hole.





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